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In this interview conducted in July 2005, M-1 of the Dead Prez group presents the "Hands off Assata" campaign, launched following the US government’s $1 million bounty on Assata Shakur’s head on May 2, 2005.

Hip-hop is a tool of denunciation, expression and promotion of social movements. It has been used as a mean to express social and political struggles as well as daily struggles for the working-class. As dance or street art, hip hop allows artists to convey messages of international solidarity and to give voice to struggles for equality and against all forms of domination and discrimination. The appearance of this musical, cultural and social movement reflects a certain democratization of music.